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Added on : 2019-04-16 08:30:07

The Supreme Court stayed on Monday reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Tribes in government jobs after the Centre and states failed to implement the scheme for want of quantifiable data on the adequacy of their representation.
Hearing a batch of 84 petitions filed by the Centre, states and other individuals, a SC bench directed that status quo be maintained till the issue is decided by it.
A Constitution bench of the court had, in September last year, said reservation in promotion could be implemented but ruled the “creamy layer exclusion” principle, which applied only to other backward classes, could be extended to SCs and STs to deny quota benefits to the “elite” among the two socially underprivileged communities.
 

The Supreme Court stayed on Monday reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Tribes in government jobs after the Centre and states failed to implement the scheme for want of quantifiable data on the adequacy of their representation.
Hearing a batch of 84 petitions filed by the Centre, states and other individuals, a SC bench directed that status quo be maintained till the issue is decided by it.
A Constitution bench of the court had, in September last year, said reservation in promotion could be implemented but ruled the “creamy layer exclusion” principle, which applied only to other backward classes, could be extended to SCs and STs to deny quota benefits to the “elite” among the two socially underprivileged communities.
 

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